captintanqueray

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Tepodon is right about the minimizing window. this happened to me once during a stalled save; i saved and quit then went to work, when i got home the save box was still there (game obviously stuck). i hit the start menu key to minimize, the screen closed, nothing else was stuck on the computer, i opened it back up, it finished saving and exited the game. upon reopening there was a hole in the region. it was a custom size region, plugin folder maticulously in order, and luckily backed up.. BUT... this wasn't the first or last time this has happened to me, which is why i back my regions up often. this has happened to me without hitting the start menu button. i've had cities disapear, and holes created. if this has never happened to you, say you have a downtown with 4 midtown cities attached, and the downtown disappears with the hole. not only is the city erased (the city file in your docs/sc4/regions/ IS still there), but in region view you can't even click on that part of the map. THERE'S AN ACTUAL HOLE IN YOUR REGION and you can't even start a new city in it's place. just like that the region is ruined. i, however haven't been able to recover the city without bringing in the backup file, only been able to recover the land. This never happened to me until i got a computer with VISTA on it. I'm not a VISTA hater (i really have no quarrel with vista except SC4) but the game does crash on occasion, and i've lost a lot of work. My computer is decent VAIO 1.8 Centrino Duo 2G ram 512M nvidia 8400mGT

timemaster - what you're looking for is electron sharing; hydrogen is a alkali metal in the group 1a of the periodic table, which means that it bonds readily with oxygen. they don't exist alone in nature (except in the interstellar medium) so on earth they're alway's paired (rember HONClBrIF from chem class?) as an isotope it can exist with a positive or negative charge, depending on the element it's bonded to (positive if with a halogen, negative if with a metal or metalloid. this is why hydrogen pairs so easily- ... sorry... hydrogen has 1 proton and 1 electron. He has 2 protons and 2 electrons. if you fuse 2 hydrogen atoms together then you get an element with 2 protons and 2 electrons, this is achieved this by slamming different H ions together, but the isotopes they're working with are limited. now, if you went to jupiter (which is right there next to mars ) and extracted some of that H3 from it's atmosphere, then we might have an easier solution. all we have to do is get a vacuum cleaner in jupiter's atmosphere and we've got it. speaking of alkali metals, i wonder what would happen if you dropped some francium in water, if of course you prevented it from being exposed to Oxygen before it were exposed to the H2O. any ultra-nerds want to weigh in on that? do you think it would blow up the planet, or just the continent? and if one contained the vector of the explosion, would it hit light speed?

Originally posted by: Duke87 Please. You want skyscrapers? Come to New York. Or maybe go to Chicago. But Atlanta? Feh. Tiny downtown and that's it. quote> why are ya'll (yes i'm from the south) hating Atlanta's skyline? it's one of the most impressive i've ever seen, and i've been to almost every city mentioned in this blog (never been to Seattle or Detroit). actually Atlanta is tied with Dallas for 6th in buildings over 500ft/152m Atlanta has third tallest skyline with the Bank of America Plaza - taller than any building in Houston, LA, San Fran, or Miami. emprois lists Atlanta at 33rd worldwide in "highrise", that consists of buildings of 115ft (35 meters) buildings over 295ft/90m are NY (886), Chicago (345), Houston (117), Miami (114), San Fransisco (104), and LA and Atlanta (tied at 91). these numbers include surrounding cities like Miami Beach, Jersey City, and LA's mini cities (Burbank, W. Hollywood etc.) with 7 building over 400 ft in construction, 11 approved, and 13 more proposed (including 2 over 700 ft), Atlanta's skyline is no pushover. Having said that, i would have to say that Knoxville, TN (minus the traffic of I-75 and I-40 bottlenecking) Austin TX (party on 6th street!), Santa Barbera (they must try to keep UCSB a secret), and Annapolis MD (blue crab - mmmm) are the nicest cities in the US. of course NY is alive 24-7 (my license is suspended there) Chicago also has an beautiful skyline, although it's placelessness from there D.C. is amazing Houston is annoying (people are mad from breathing too much pollution) LA can be nice if you don't have to drive during the day by yourself. and lets not forget There's no party like Pat O's in New Orleans on a random wednesday night. N.O. will be back one day; though, i'd imagine you'll still smell like sewage when you leave.

wow, fun thread.. so there are several theories that are included in the theory of evolution, and they're all right, but all incomplete because "thinking" people tend to be elitists and a lot of the original thinkers used to get into bar fights on a regular basis. wikipedia Punctuated Equilibrium. this idea is one of the best to explain what is happening with our DNA and phenotypes. and no one thing killed the dinosaurs. lots of little things happened that upset balances resulting in the survival of the fit and lucky. after all, there are still dinosaurs among us. oh, and creationism is screwing up the scientific thought potental of my little sister and her preteen colleagues. i'm all about new ideas, but these kids are being taught that evolution is a religion.

dude, i think i just filled the cup.